 In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party...  The Political Code of the State of California - Page 382by California - 1872Full view - About this book
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 718 pages
...be passed, to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in...evidence, to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, aud was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | New York (State) - Session laws - 1823 - 516 pages
...shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in...evidence, to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with .good motives, and for... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - New York (State) - 1887 - 102 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in...the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature shall be requisite... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in...evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1827 - 544 pages
...quite so latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as •ibellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for... | |
 | Francis Smith Eastman - New York (State) - 1828 - 320 pages
...shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in...evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall :ippear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives,... | |
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